| Title |
Olive O'Mara, West Valley City, Utah: an interview by Becky B. Lloyd, June 22, 2002: Saving the legacy tape no. 569 and 570 |
| Alternative Title |
Olive O'Mara, Saving the legacy: an oral history of Utah's World War II veterans, ACCN 2070, American West Center, University of Utah |
| Creator |
O'Mara, Olive, 1920- |
| Contributor |
Lloyd, Becky B.; University of Utah. American West Center |
| Publisher |
Digitized by J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah |
| Date |
2002-06-22 |
| Date Digital |
2015-09-16 |
| Access Rights |
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| Spatial Coverage |
New York City, New York, United States |
| Subject |
O'Mara, Olive, 1920- --Interviews; World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American; Veterans--Utah--Biography; World War, 1939-1945--Women--United States--Biography; United States--Naval Reserve--Women's Reserve |
| Keywords |
WAVEs |
| Description |
Transcript (47 pages) of an interview by Becky B. Lloyd with Olive O'Mara on June 22, 2002. This is from tape numbers 569 and 570 in the "Saving the Legacy Oral History Project |
| Collection Number and Name |
Accn2070, Saving the Legacy oral history project, 2001-2010 |
| Abstract |
O'Mara (b. 1920) recalls growing up in a small mining town in Pennsylvania during the Depression. She enlisted in the WAVES, was trained as an electrician's mate, and served in New York. 47 pages. |
| Type |
Text |
| Genre |
oral histories (literary works) |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Extent |
31 pages |
| Language |
eng |
| Rights |
 |
| Scanning Technician |
Mazi Rakhsha |
| Conversion Specifications |
Original scanned with Kirtas 2400 and saved as 400 ppi uncompressed TIFF. PDF generated by Adobe Acrobat Pro X for CONTENTdm display |
| ARK |
ark:/87278/s6ww9gxv |
| Topic |
Personal narratives--American; Veterans; World War (1939-1945); Women in war; United States. Naval Reserve. Women's Reserve |
| Setname |
uum_slohp |
| ID |
1022905 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6ww9gxv |
| Title |
Page 32 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_slohp |
| ID |
1022888 |
| OCR Text |
Show OLIVE O'MARA 22 2 2 attention I was getting. This was way back from no art ntion what and Dad were kind of hoping I'd find one man somewhere and wh re I had n dat and I'm here with all these men. Some of them were married I suppose but most of th m were single. As far as I knew, they all were. Anyway, Herald Square Hotel was not too far from the Empire State Building. The memories I had are of getting up every morning and going to the subways, going with this one girl, she and I together. I wasn't very-we didn't have any trouble but I didn't get along with her because she was not as popular as I was. And when I say popular it was kind of because I was all excited there were men. She was a wonderfully, perfectly nice girl but she was not the kind to attract attention. She probably was a much more stable, reliable person, but I got the attention, more. So we didn't get close to each other. Now she was sent on the East Coast somewhere and I was kept in New York. After the training I was sent up to the some office. The office was right down in the middle of New York, not too far from Herald Square. There was a whole gang of projectionists in the office. This is the gang [showing photo]. So there with those people, I spent the next year or year-and-a-half-whatever it was-very close to them. I think of a story about each one of them. This one man here, he had a nice family. We went horseback riding up in his area. I think was called Queens. We went horseback riding there one weekend, and I got poison ivy. I'm extremely allergic to poison ivy. I was down the middle of New York City, and I'd be dabbing stuff on the poison ivy. Anyway, he had a family, a nice family up there, and his last little child was Down's Syndrome. There's a story about all of them. There's Chief Gretzinger. I liked him. This was a good friend (looking at picture). She liked the guy I dated, Andy Eastwick, right here. Andy's father had plantations down in the islands down toward Florida or Cuba or 31 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6ww9gxv/1022888 |
